Gallery: Mali: Medical services in northeastern Mali

13 March 2018

In northeastern Mali, in the towns of Ansongo and Douentza, MSF provides a range of medical services.

Since 2012, we have supported services in the referral hospital in Ansongo, in the Gao region, including outpatients, emergency care and hospitalisation, maternal health, treatment of chronic illnesses, nutrition, and neonatal and paediatric services. At the community health centre in the town, renovated by MSF, the teams provide primary health care to pregnant women and children under aged under five.

In Douentza, in the nearby Mopti region, MSF teams support the Referral Health Centre (CSRef) in nutrition, emergency surgery, mental health, and care and hospitalisation for children aged 0-15. We also ensures the transfer of urgent cases to the city of Mopti.

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Mali: Medical services in northeastern Mali

At the community health centre in Ansongo, the women from the town and its surroundings bring their children aged under 5 to be vaccinated. The MSF team uses vaccination cards to call the names of the mothers sat on the mats as they wait their turn.

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Sidiki, an MSF doctor, and Aminata, the MSF supervising midwife, do the morning rounds to visit the new mothers in the delivery room at the maternity centre in Ansongo

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40-year-old Mahamadou Agaïri, a shopkeeper from Ansongo, wearing his 2-day-old baby in 'Kangaroo' style, an unprecedented gesture in a place where men don't normally carry babies. His wife, who underwent an obstetric operation during the delivery, is still weak and recovering in bed in the hospital. Mahamadou's newborn was hospitalised in the neonatal unit in Ansongo.

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Aminata, MSF supervising midwife at the maternity clinic in Ansongo, doing a consultation for a newborn.

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Tala, aged 17, was referred to the clinic in Ansongo at the end of November by the community health centre in Tinehama. She is suffering from anaemia following a haemorrhage that she had while delivering her first baby at home.

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Mothers wait with their children in front of the paediatric unit at the CSRef in Douentza. MSF provides free healthcare here for children aged 0 to 15 years old.

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Fatoumata, 30, mother of two children and a housewife from the village of Wui, a commune of Boré located 50km from Douentza. Fatoumata accompanies her one-year-old daughter Mariam who is suffering from severe acute malnutrition. Mariam has been hospitalised for 4 days in the paediatric ward where she receives care from MSF in the stabilisation room.

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Fatoumata, from a nomadic community and a mother of five children, was nearly dead when she arrived at the Referral Health Centre in Dala, 5km from Douentza, in northern Mali. The MSF team stabilized her so that she was no longer in a critical condition.

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The operating theatre of the CSRef in Douentza, which is supported by MSF through the provision of staff and equipment. The surgeons intervene to save the life of a pregnant woman with a complicated birth requiring obstetric surgery.

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MSF staff giving vaccinations in Douentza.

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Mothers with their recovering children in front of the malnutrition treatment unit at the CSRef in Douentza.